David Langs magnificent The Little Match Girl Passion, recorded at our tour to Belgium in March 2026:

And a classic, Brahms Requiem, recorded in Christiane Kyrka in November 2025:

The opera premiered at Läckö Castle Opera ten years ago and is now brought to life in an intimate chamber version. With a smaller ensemble of cello, violin, and piano, the music unfolds in a close and expressive setting where every detail can be heard. Featuring Annalouisa Magnusson, sopran, and William Tarach, baryton, in the roles of the glassmaker’s daughter and the sergeant, the opera tells a story of love, longing, and the courage to choose one’s own path.

Daniel Fjällström’s music combines dramatic intensity with moments of lyricism and reflection, allowing Almqvist’s ideas to resonate with our own time. We warmly welcome you to a compelling operatic experience where literature, music, and human questions meet.

October 15 2026 – Allahelgonakyrkan Lund
Novermber 8 2026 – World of Volvo Göteborg

We warmly welcome you to an evening filled with light, emotion, and the joy of music.

May 21 2027 – Valla kyrka Tjörn
May 22 2027 – Nikolaikyrkan Lidköping
May 23 2027 – Göteborg

Together, these works create a programme that moves between tradition and renewal, contemplation and dramatic intensity. We warmly welcome you to an evening of powerful choral music and captivating soundscapes.

February 27 2027 – Uddevalla kyrka
February 28 2027 – Skara Domkyrka
March 13 2027 – Göteborgs Domkyrka
March 14 2027 – Eric Ericssonhallen Stockholm

Let yourself be immersed in music that evokes star-lit winter nights, ringing bells, and the timeless story that has inspired generations. We warmly welcome you to share the spirit of Christmas with us.

19 december 2027 – Annedalskyrkan Göteborg

Let the Swedish Chamber Choir warm you with a sparkling Christmas concert before the longest night of the year, just a few days before Christmas Eve. We offer beloved Swedish Christmas favorites, a few rare gems, something grand and festive, and some reflections on the season’s traditional family gatherings — all interwoven with sing-along moments that make the stars in the sky shimmer.

Let the stars guide us this evening, and let the message of Christmas shine brightly — like an eternal star over the world.

You are warmly welcome to celebrate the Christmas season together with us!

20 December, 5 pm, Annedalskyrkan, Gothenburg

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The music moves through an ascetic landscape of voices, percussion, and pauses. Every sound carries traces of cold, waiting, and repetition. Like the girl’s matches, the music flares briefly—fragile, fleeting, and vanishing. What is heard is as important as what is withheld.

Performed in English, The Little Match Girl Passion is not addressed to children, but to us as adults—those who are able to help, yet do not always do so. In the encounter between text and music, the girl’s loneliness becomes a mirror: humanity is not measured in compassion, but in action. When the work fades away, there is no consolation—only the question of what it means to see, and still walk on.

With this production, the Swedish Chamber Choir expands and challenges the traditional concert format, weaving song together with movement and staged expression, under the direction of the choir’s conductor and artistic director Kim Simon Phipps, in collaboration with choreographer Aloun Marchal. The choir also broadens its audience through a short, exciting, and intense tour to exceptionally fine concert halls in the Netherlands and Belgium.

In addition to The Little Match Girl Passion, the choir will perform Bo Holten’s Regn og rusk og rosenbusk, also set to a text by H.C. Andersen. In this virtuosic work for 16 voices, opposing views of existence—optimistic light and pessimistic darkness—compete with one another. The themes of light and darkness, harmony and dissonance, are further reflected in Ingvar Lidholm’s starkly contrasting De profundis and in Sven-David Sandström’s intensely expressive version of Henry Purcell’s Hear My Prayer, O Lord.

1 March 2026 6 pm – Kronhuset, Gothenburg
13 March 2026 8 pm – St Baafskerk (St. Bavo’s Church), Aardenburg, the Netherlands
14 March 2026 8 pm – Die Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium
15 March 2026 3 pm – De Spil, Roeselare, Belgium

Image: Story of Andersen, https://storyofandersen.dk 

It’s no coincidence that birds hold such a central place in poetry and music—they sing and they can fly, just as music longs to do. In Lars-Erik Larsson’s No Bird Soars Too High, there is a promise of unrestrained freedom, renewal, and life. In Caroline Shaw’s beautifully floating and the swallow, the small, everyday bird becomes a bearer of something greater—perhaps the soul’s restlessness, perhaps the hope of returning home.

The highlight of the concert is Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, where, together with internationally acclaimed violinist and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Artist in Residence Ava Bahari, we unfurl our most radiant plumage and soar into the skylark’s shimmering song.

The nightingale sings in Felix Mendelssohn’s Die Nachtigall, and in Edward Cowie’s playful Lyrebird, an entire aviary bursts forth with Australian lyrebirds, famed for their extraordinary ability to imitate other species. What makes Lyrebird so fascinating is not only the abundance of birdsong, but how Cowie blurs the boundary between nature and composition. Is this birdsong becoming music—or music revealing that birdsong is already composition?

But not everything that flies is a bird. In Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, humans, machines, and doves flutter through a brilliantly organized chaos, as Leonardo da Vinci—through Latin, whispers, and sheer optimism—realizes his wildest dream.

Come and fly with us!

June 5 2026 at 7pm – Västerlanda Kyrka Lilla Edet
June 6 2026 at 6pm – Valla kyrka Tjörn
June 7 2026 at 7pm – World of Volvo Göteborg

With the season ticket you can chose which show you’d like to attend when there are more than one given in Gothenburg. As a faithful season ticket holders you will get an additional 10% discount on next years season ticket.

This years included concerts are:

BRAHMS – EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 November 2025
Join us for a deeply moving concert as we perform Johannes Brahms’ masterpiece Ein Deutsches Requiem in a unique chamber music arrangement with amazing soloists. This version brings the work’s heartfelt texts and profound emotions even closer to the audience. […]

CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Saturday 20 December 2025
The midwinter darkness is illuminated by shimmering Christmas music as The Swedish Chamber Choir invites you to a concert on the evening before the longest night of the year, just a few days before Christmas Eve. The program traditionally offers many beloved Swedish Christmas favourites, […]

THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION
Sunday 1 March 2026
A Modern Passion Story – Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved 1845 tale The Little Match Girl is brought into the present in David Lang’s irresistible composition The Little Match Girl Passion, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. […]

SUMMER HEAT
Sunday 7 June 2026
Welcome to a summer concert where choral music comes into full bloom! With nature and the season as our theme, we present classical choral pieces that capture the warmth, stillness, and vitality of summer. Gentle harmonies and light melodies invite you into a world of sunlit meadows, birdsong, and soft evening breezes. […]